Writing well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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